Yu Heng Lau

@YuHengLau

Associate Professor in Chemical and Synthetic Biology | The University of Sydney | LauGroup.net

Sydney, Australia sydney.edu.au/science/about/… Joined March 2020

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Yu Heng Lau @YuHengLau Dec 19, 2025

We are hiring! Our lab in Sydney is looking for a postdoc with cyano experience to drive our SynBio project on carbon-fixing encapsulin protein cages.🦠 ➡️ 🌻

This project follows our recent work in Nat Commun:
lnkd.in/g-rYrg93

Full details:
lnkd.in/gRJv4RGs

Yu Heng Lau @YuHengLau Oct 30, 2025

Led by @taylorszyszka + Dav, the first part of a big effort @Sydney_Science to make simple CO2-fixing cages is out @NatureComms 🦠➡️🌻

Encapsulation is one step towards keeping Rubisco focused on its very important job...

Read the Conversation article: doi.org/10.64628/AA.n5…

Yu Heng Lau @YuHengLau Apr 15, 2025

Congratulations to our @RACInational MCCB Division award winners, delivering their lectures this morning in Darwin:

@PScammells - Adrien Albert award
@NitscheLab - Peter Andrews award

👏👏👏
#mccb2025

Yu Heng Lau @YuHengLau Apr 13, 2025

One week until the applications close for our two postdoc positions:

1) Synthetic med chem usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_…

2) Chem bio usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_…

(new links, not sure why Workday changed them...)

Yu Heng Lau @YuHengLau Mar 20, 2025

We're hiring!🚨Our lab @SydneyChemistry is looking for two new #chempostdoc for our drug discovery program:

1) Synthetic/Med Chem (small molecule hit-to-lead)🧪
usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXT…
2) Chemical Biology (peptide inhibitors)🦠
usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXT…

Pls spread the word!🙏

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Yu Heng Lau @YuHengLau Mar 31, 2025

Our paper on in vitro assembly and packaging of encapsulin protein cages is now accepted in @angew_chem 🥳

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Congrats @taylorszyszka for leading the charge, along with all our team members and collaborators

Yu Heng Lau @YuHengLau Nov 26, 2024

For those yet to seek bluer skies, check out our latest preprint on encapsulin protein cages!

We can now assemble them beautifully in vitro, without all the ugly defects you get from using acid/base or denaturants.

This lets us put any synthetic cargo into these cages.
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